Venerable drunkards The Pogues will be back again for their annual St. Patty’s Day East Coast American tour. Everyone’s favorite lush Shane McGowan will hopefully remain uninjured this year (last year he fell down and broke a leg) and be able to complete each night’s set, despite being completely wasted all the time. The dates and pre-sale ticket info can be found after the jump.
“Sorry about last night, guys. Shit happens.”
Guitarist Phil Chevron opened Thursday night’s Pogues show with that simple explanation for the “little tumble” lead singer Shane MacGowan took a few nights before at the Boston show, resulting in him tearing ligaments in one of his knees and forcing the band to cancel Wednesday night’s show, last-minute. With that, all was forgiven, at least for me. After switching my tickets to the Thursday show, and waiting on the phone with Ticketmaster for too-long of a time, I was just happy to be there.
And so was the band. They played an instrumental song first, hyping the crowd for the arrival of Shane, who was wheeled out soon after in his wheelchair, and placed next to his table (and bottle of booze) and lowered microphone. He laughed through his teeth and greeted the crowd and the band kicked into “Streams of Whiskey.”
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